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(16): TV-show review: Money Heist; Chauvinism and What it Takes to Drop the Nuisance.

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Genre: Crime Thriller.  Year of release: 2020 Author: MA Iliasu. First love is first love, a nostalgic lover once said. And perhaps that's the feeling at work in this regard. The psychological dilemma of the Royal Mint heist in season one and two was so dear to the watching folk I'm sure the events are still glued on the memory of watchers. And Berlin, the emotionally-cold protagonist was so adored by watchers many believe he was the soul of the Mint's Heist. The season three that followed shaded more light regarding what was engraved in season one and two of gender war, leadership distrust, managerial skepticism which turned into power struggle between the genderly different Money-Heisters. And at first attempt, a successful coup was staged which toppled the captain of the heist, Berlin, by the highly-spirited matriarchal protagonists, Tokyo and Nairobi. However, the power was returned before long because Berlin was an alpha-male, with psyche so tough it rightly...

(15): TV-show review: Vikings; Masculinism And Feminism From The Lens of Hero Romanticism.

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Genre: Historical drama. Action-adventure. Year of release: 2013. Author: MA Iliasu . Coauthor: Abdulrahman Baba-Ahmed .  Ragnar Lothbrok was an audacious farmer who was consumed by the depth of his curiosity. Fated to do great things, Ragnar Lothbrok's audacity clouded the fate of his brother Rollo, and naturally took control of his heathen crew. Bound to intimidate any power in his environment, Ragnar fulfilled an inevitable fallout with his ruler, Earl Harroldson, after coming back from raiding an Anglo-Saxon Island under the care of Christian monastery across the sea. Gaining from the spoils of the raid a Christian priest by the name Athelstan, who'll later serve as the navigator of Ragnar's curiosity. Upright like an amateur nipple, Ragnar clipped Earl Harroldson in a single combat to took over Kattegat and moved in to the great Hall with his wife Lagertha and son Bjorn. Fuelling a more equipped quest towards physically visualizing his curiosity. Normally, ...